... at least I am convinced of that every time I try to sneak up on one and kill it...

Boulder is not a high tech incubation region. Denver's high-tech region is south and east of the city.

Boulder is an incubation region for dirty hippies, far-leftists, organic Rastafarians, and art history majors.

All of that typing just to say "this is Bush's fault."

Sad, indeed.

are the consumers who end up paying for both sides.

Why is Quality of Life measured by whether and how fast someone can access the Internet?

The Internet is not the end-all, be-all of whether life is worth living.

A USB "charging" cable has the data pins shorted internally to allow high-current charging to USB devices. Why not just use one of these as it will not allow data transmission?

Who is this article about, again? Me, or Linus?

Common sense is totally dead in this country.

Because it won't work.

You can't wish a flood away, no more than you can wish the sky to be green.

The world is a global marketplace and there is nothing you can do to stop someone in India offering their services at a lower price than you.

To Linux. We have been 100% Linux since then - not a single Microsoft machine in the entire operation. And yes, we do get threatening letters from the BSA every year...

Ionization is not what it's talking about either. But, lesson learned - don't try and be all 'sciency' and use the wrong jargon.

It's not bad science, because it's not science at all.

"First, consider the true vaporization â" the complete separation of all atoms within a molecule"

That's not what vaporization is.

I doubt they have diagnostic coverage of every single flop in the entire processor.

When an HDD fails, you can still get the data off of it. It's expensive, but it can be done.

When an SSD fails, it seems that more often than not your data just disappears. I think this is why the industry is moving towards only using SSDs for caching to platter drives, because honestly I don't believe SSDs will ever be reliable enough for critical storage.